Vale88

Thanks for all of your help! I ended up just chucking the HDD in without reformatting and everything's working perfectly so far, it detected the HDD as a secondary drive and booted from the SSD automatically.

On 5/10/2022 at 4:02 PM, Fasauceome said:

If you delete all the windows system files off the hard drive it'll never be seen as a valid boot option, so you should do that after you finish setting up the system on the SSD.

My next question would be what's the easiest way to delete the old windows install from the HDD without reformatting?

As the title says I need helping putting the 2TB HDD bootdrive from my old Windows 10 computer into my new one as a secondary drive for storage. I would like to do this while keeping all of the personal files on the HDD. The new computer currently has a singular 1TB NVME SSD setup with Windows 10.

Just knowing how Windows can be and my general bad luck, I'm worried about something going terribly wrong if I were to do this myself without instructions, and I can't seem to find a clear detailed answer for my specific question on Google. Is there anything in particular I need to do or know about?

Thanks!

Alright thanks that sounds good, this is what I've got down for the build

Do you happen to know of any good tutorials for building and setting up a PC from start to finish?

22 minutes ago, LloydLynx said:

You should have room in the budget to include a Samsung 860 EVO 250GB. Booting from that HDD at first will be fine, but Windows 10 has a habit of rotting away and becoming unbearably slow by about a year into the installation, especially on hard dives.

18 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

I agree with Lloyd, you should get some kind of SSD, even a 120GB cheapo SSD will be MILES faster than the hard drive, also, make sure that the motherboard is updated to the latest bios so that it supports the 3400G, last thing you want is to try and boot your new PC and it just doesnt.

20 minutes ago, Hullwood2 said:

The build looks pretty solid not gonna lie! For your first ever time picking out parts you definitely did your research. You might not be able to play super high settings but with your current monitor you should be able to pull of medium on all of the listed games easily. Nice future-proofing with the MB and RAM both able to support later gen CPUs and GPUs. I would recommend like everyone else here, to get an SSD. Whether or not its big it will speed up game load times and will make your windows experience smoother. Make sure you install your games and OS on it and leave large blender files or other misc files on your HDD.

Thanks for the suggestions! I added this SSD to the build. And I don't remember the last time I did a fresh install of windows that must be why my computer boots up so slow these days

And I've already checked it looks like the motherboard has been updated to be compatible with the 3400G. And I did do quite a bit of research into this as I don't wanna be stuck with something that won't last and can't be upgraded in the future, I'm glad I did well

18 minutes ago, Downkey said:

changed the PSU to a higher quality PSU. The system won’t even consume more than 175 watts so 500W is more than enough.

Will the PSU you added be powerful enough to support a newish mid-tier GPU if I get one in the future? I don't wanna have to buy a whole new PSU in year or two if I end up deciding to get one

Budget (including currency): $500USD Max but if we can stay under that that would be great

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Light Digital Painting in PS/CSP, It'd also be nice to do some light 2D animation in Blender.
For Gaming: Skyrim SE, Subnautica Below Zero, Don't Starve Together, and Yakuza on Med graphics

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I'm upgrading from my nearly decade old prebuilt home office pc. I don't need any peripherals and my current monitor is 1366x768 60hz, I'd like to upgrade to a 1440P 90-120Hz monitor in the future but that likely won't be this year. And I'm planning on buying sometime before or around May.

Here's the part list I quickly put together, the storage listed is the one I have currently and it still has over 1TB remaining on it. I'd like to continue to use if at all possible.

I don't know much about PC's and this will be my first time building a computer so any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

On 2/4/2020 at 5:12 PM, Vale88 said:

PCIE 2.0 and a Legacy BIOS.

 Med/High graphics 60fps 1366x768

On 2/4/2020 at 5:23 PM, Radium_Angel said:

These might prove mutually contradicting. Have you considered an nVidia Quadro K2000/K3000?

Yeah maybe medium/high graphical settings is a little much for Below Zero and games like it for what I'd be able to get, but If I can get Below Zero to run at 60fps Low/Medium with a decent render distance, and for Don't Starve to actually run on my computer I'd be more than happy.

And I didn't even know what a nVidia Quardro K2000/K3000 was till now, I'll have to see what they go for these days, but they seem to be a little weak for what I was hoping to get.

On 2/4/2020 at 5:55 PM, emosun said:

yeah but a 10 series nvidia will and they're pretty common so i think he'll be ok as far as bios goes.

I think so long as you select a card that is the length of the pci-e slot then it'll definitely fit. something like a 1050 mini might work and be in budget

A 1050 Mini would probably fit just fine, it just depends if I can find one for a reasonable price, I'll look more into the other cards in the 10 series and see what I can find that'll work.

Thanks for all the help!

Howdy, I have an old prebuilt computer with a small case and I can't seem to find a GPU online that will fit in it, the GPU will need to be about 7inches or shorter and work on PCIE 2.0 and a Legacy BIOS.

I'm hoping to stay under $150USD, and looking to be able to play games like Don't Starve, Subnautica Below Zero, The Long Dark, etc on Med/High graphics 60fps 1366x768

Here's the link to my PC where you can find all of my current specs https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03348828

50 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

You'd be much better off with a cheaper power supply like a Corsair cx450, it's going to have significantly better value.

Yea I think you're right, I'll consider getting a cx450 or 550 instead of the G3

1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

Also, your CPU is fairly old and it wasn't even high-end when it launched. You're going to struggle to get 60 FPS in Warframe and subnautica, regardless of the graphics card.

 

you could go older with an R9 380 and it would also have much better performance.

Ahh I didn't even think about my CPU, that sucks, hopefully the bottleneck isn't too awfully bad. And I guess its not that big of a deal, as long as I can actually run Don't Starve at *atleast* 30fps, and be able to play Subnautica at low settings with a half decent render distance than I'll be happy. And just having an actual graphics card will allow me to do things in Photoshop I can't do currently

And I don't think a R9 would fit in my case, I would have to take some measurements to make sure but a 10 inch long card seems too big.

Thanks for all the help!

Hello, I need some help upgrading my old prebuilt HP p7-1227c (https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03348828) computer.

I'm hoping to stay close to $200 USD, but am willing to go up to around $265 if needed, I'd like to be able to play games like Subnautica Below Zero, Warframe, and Don't Starve, at 60FPS medium/high settings, as well as being able to draw/paint in Photoshop with less brush lag and at larger size canvases than 6x4 300PPI. My monitor resolution is 1366x768 and I don't plan on upgrading my monitor anytime in the near future.

I'll be getting an EVGA 650W G3 PSU, and was thinking a XFX RX560 4GB would be adequate for what I want to do. I also need to know if the GPU will work on PCIE 2.0 with a Legacy BIOS, I read in a couple different forums somewhere that the RX500 series and most newer GPU's won't work on a BIOS Motherboard and need UEFI

Any help would be gladly appreciated, thank you!